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How to make community members stick at djst’s nest

by karlcow

an interesting conclusion about how to turn new and casual contributors into long-time community members: the key is to distribute ownership.

To wrap up, there were several things that motivated me to stay active in the Mozilla community: * A belief in the mission of the project — to create a web browser that supports and promotes the use of open standards * An interest in the technology — initially with the Gecko logo as my hook * The feeling of belonging in a community of people with similar interests * The desire to give something back to a project that gave (and still gives) me the best browser in the world for free * The experiences gained by managing a website — HTML, CSS, server configurations, and perhaps most importantly, the English language * The recognition and respect from Mozilla project members for my contributions * The pride of being responsible for an important piece of the project

01 July 2009

Gridshore » How WTF’s improve code quality awareness

by karlcow

It is very important to report the WTF to the developer who produced the code. Subversions “annotate” or “blame” function provides a means to blame someone for the existence of a specific piece of code. The best way to report this back is through an informative and educational discussion, where everyone could be involved. The factoring should preferably be done by the developer responsible for the code, perhaps with the assistance of the developer who reviewed it. As a result, quality awareness will have improved within the development team.

Flickr: Add a weblog

by oqdbpo
Tweet your Flickr photos and video. Here's how to set it up: 1. Go to Twitter to authorize tweets from your Flickr account. 2. Once authorized you'll automatically be sent back to Flickr, and we'll show how to tweet to your heart's content.

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30 June 2009

Re: vCard RDF merge.... from Toby Inkster on 2009-06-30 (www-archive@w3.org from June 2009)

by karlcow

A while back I wrote a little RDF vocab that extended the 2006 vCard vocab. It introduces a few extra terms which I thought were useful, mostly taken from the vCard 4.0 drafts at the time. e.g. a "lang" property to indicate languages spoken by the person represented. One other thing it has though is a more vCard-like way of representing telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.

27 June 2009

25 June 2009

upscale typography » Blog Archive » Drawing with Type

by sbrothier
This is one of the newest apps for the Apple iphone. The concept is very simple. Drawing with letters. The first release came out late May, but the project started back in 2005 as an online project for the web. You simply type a sentence or word and then you start drawing. You may save it, email it or upload it to the typedrawing flickr group. The new 1.2 update goes one step further. Now you can set colors, typeface, text size, and undo & redo. This is the type of application that makes you spend many creative hours with your iphone or ipod touch.

21 June 2009

The Real iPhone 1.0 | Monday Note

by night.kame

That is why I call the latest release 1.0, the complete one, with a tip of the hat to the engineers who, in less than two years, moved the OS from a painfully trimmed down port of OS X to a tiny ARM platform, creating a polished new user interface in the process. And giving birth to a new applications ecosystem, an unforeseen outgrowth of the iTunes platform.

Et encore, il manque la possibilité aux applications tierces de s'exécuter en tâche de fond. Même EPOC proposait le mutlitâche.

19 June 2009

How To Configure Your Router for Gaming

by alamat (via)
Playing games over the Internet is a lot easier than it used to be. Nobody wants to go back to the days of modem initialization strings, manually entering IP addresses, and getting disconnected whenever someone else picked up the phone

CodeProject: Designing And Implementing A Neural Network Library For Handwriting Detection, Image Analysis etc.- The BrainNet Library - Full Code, Simplified Theory, Full Illustration, And Examples. Free source code and programming help

by jpcaruana (via)
This article will explain the actual concepts of Backward Propagation Neural Networks - in such a way that even a person with zero knowledge in neural networks can understand the required theory and concepts very easily. The related project demonstrates the designing and implementation of a fully working 'BackProp' Neural Network library, i.e, the Brain Net library as I call it. You can find the theory, illustration and concepts here - along with the explanation of the neural network library project - in this article. Also, find the full source code of the library and related demo projects (a simple pattern detector, a hand writing detection pad, an xml based neural network processing language etc) in the associated zip file.

15 June 2009

HubLog: Annotation of Scientific Articles

by parmentierf
I made a web-based interface for curating the results of entity extraction from scientific papers. It converts XML files to text, passes the text through machine annotators, lets curators add/delete/modify the annotations, then splices the annotations back into the original XML file.

14 June 2009

Competition : WPA 2.0

by karlcow

cityLAB, an urban think tank at UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design, announces a call for entries to “WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture.” WPA 2.0 is an open competition that seeks innovative, implementable proposals to place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding our cities during this next era of metropolitan recovery.

13 June 2009

John Mann Photography

by karlcow

Folded in Place furthers the abstraction once offered by landscape photography by removing the place itself and replacing it with a mapped construction. This method leads the viewer to re-imagine the spectacle of the foreign lands and explore the abstraction of place offered by photography. The combination of still-life constructions and the maps’ reference to large and distant lands examines the paradox of known and unknown geographies offered by the photographic image. In this manner, Folded in Place turns the abstract representation of the map back into a physical landscape using photography to look at the map as a geography of its own.

11 June 2009

Baekdal Le Mans 24 Hours LIVE Tracker |

by rax262 (via)
Thomas Baekdal (@baekdal24hours on twitter) has been providing this app for a few years now. No skipping around to multiple websites, just click the banner above, kick back and enjoy. Since they are 6hrs ahead of us (EST) its a great way to keep up during the day if you’re at work! And, the webcam tracker is now also available for download here: http://bit.ly/ujHTd (But the webcams are not online until Saturday)

walking papers lives (tecznotes)

by karlcow

OpenStreetMap, the wiki-style map of the world that anyone can edit, is in need of a new way to add content. I've been working on a way to "round trip" map data through paper, to make it easier to perform the kinds of eyes-on-the-street edits that OSM needs now the most, as well as distributing the load by making it possible for legible, easy notes to be shared and turned into real geographical data.

Walking Papers is a working service that implements this paper idea, based on initial technical experimentation from back in February.

10 June 2009

Obama | One People

by tisienpo
The City illustrates the emotional flow of the Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C. Through an analysis of the number of mobile phone calls made in Washington D.C. on Inauguration Day and the home state or country of phone origin, it is possible to see peaks of call activity as the crowd anticipates President Obama's oath, a drop in call activity as the crowd listens to his inaugural address, and peaks again as the crowd celebrates the inauguration of the new President. Through their cell phones, those present at the historic event share their impressions with friends and family in vast numbers: on the morning of January 20th, call activity is two to three times stronger than usual, and it rises to five times the normal levels after 2 pm as President Obama takes his oath and people begin to celebrate.

The New Negroponte Switch

by karlcow

What I think we need to investigate are designs of media, service and product that are resilient, and self-sustaining as far as possible. I like to call this “Thingfrastructure”

08 June 2009

Walking Papers

by philippej & 2 others (via)
"Print maps, draw on them, scan them back in and help OpenStreetMap improve its coverage of local points of interests and street detail." Excellent et prometteur...

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05 June 2009

Walking Papers

by karlcow & 2 others

Print maps, draw on them, scan them back in and help OpenStreetMap improve its coverage of local points of interests and street detail.

04 June 2009

01 June 2009

31 May 2009

The Project Plan, The Bible | Product Design and Development

by karlcow

Project plans and process ignorance

Project managers live and die by the project plan. It’s their bible. We know it like the back of our hand and we assume that everyone on the team does too, but to my surprise this is rarely the case.

Unfortunately, this lack of knowledge can reduce the effectiveness of the team, negatively impacting cost, time and performance. This article will explore the problem and suggest ways to remedy it.

Pwireframing: Paper Wireframing - mStoner - Blog

by karlcow

Two clients of ours from Bethel University, Mark Erickson (Director of Web Communications) and Michael Vedders (Director of Web Technology), came to mStoner’s Chicago office for two days earlier in the month to work directly with us on the Bethel strategy document. The idea was that two days of intense collaboration and discussion would produce a more cohesive report, better suited to Bethel’s needs.

It Doesn’t Get Any More Old School than Paper and Scissors

Part of this two day process was an exercise that I like to call paper wireframing, or Pwireframing. It’s an idea that came to me based on a link that my colleague Laurel Hechanova sent me: The Design Police Visual Enforcement Kit. If you take a look at this page, it’s essentially a print-it-yourself sticker kit, laying out a bunch of funny “laws” you can stick to a piece of communication.

30 May 2009

29 May 2009

Twitter Vs. Facebook - The Final Round

by macbros
Well, I had the Twitter bug awhile back but the effects seem to have slowly started to wear off of me. I already had a Facebook account, but I rarely ever used it, but as of late I have been on Facebook updating my status every chance I get.

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